Comment 37 for bug 554172

I have this problem also. Can start cups manually. Also cups starts automatically manually by running telinit!

 ~ > sudo runlevel
Unknown

 ~ > sudo telinit 2
 ~ > sudo runlevel
N 2

~ > sudo initctl list

Warning: Fake initctl called, doing nothing.

~ > service --status-all
 [ ? ] acpi-support
 [ ? ] acpid
 [ ? ] alsa-mixer-save
 [ ? ] anacron
 [ - ] apparmor
 [ ? ] apport
 [ ? ] atd
 [ ? ] avahi-daemon
 [ ? ] binfmt-support
 [ - ] bluetooth
 [ - ] bootlogd
 [ - ] brltty
 [ ? ] console-setup
 [ ? ] cron
 [ ? ] cryptdisks
 [ ? ] cryptdisks-early
 [ ? ] cryptdisks-enable
 [ ? ] cryptdisks-udev
 [ + ] cups
 [ ? ] dbus
 [ ? ] dmesg
 [ ? ] dns-clean
 [ ? ] ecryptfs-utils-restore
 [ ? ] ecryptfs-utils-save
 [ ? ] failsafe-x
 [ - ] fancontrol
 [ ? ] gdm
 [ ? ] gkrellmd
 [ - ] grub-common
 [ ? ] hostname
 [ ? ] hwclock
 [ ? ] hwclock-save
 [ ? ] irqbalance
 [ - ] kerneloops
 [ ? ] killprocs
 [ - ] lm-sensors
 [ ? ] module-init-tools
 [ ? ] network-interface
 [ ? ] network-interface-security
 [ ? ] network-manager
 [ ? ] networking
 [ ? ] nmbd
 [ ? ] ondemand
 [ ? ] pcmciautils
 [ ? ] plymouth
 [ ? ] plymouth-log
 [ ? ] plymouth-splash
 [ ? ] plymouth-stop
 [ ? ] pppd-dns
 [ ? ] procps
 [ + ] pulseaudio
 [ ? ] rc.local
 [ - ] rsync
 [ ? ] rsyslog
 [ - ] saned
 [ ? ] screen-cleanup
 [ ? ] sendsigs
 [ ? ] smbd
 [ ? ] speech-dispatcher
 [ ? ] stop-bootlogd
 [ ? ] stop-bootlogd-single
 [ ? ] ubiquity
 [ ? ] udev
 [ ? ] udev-finish
 [ ? ] udevmonitor
 [ ? ] udevtrigger
 [ ? ] ufw
 [ ? ] umountfs
 [ ? ] umountnfs.sh
 [ ? ] umountroot
 [ ? ] unattended-upgrades
 [ - ] urandom
 [ ? ] wpa-ifupdown
 [ - ] x11-common